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authorJeffrey H. Kingston <jeff@it.usyd.edu.au>2010-09-14 20:38:39 +0000
committerJeffrey H. Kingston <jeff@it.usyd.edu.au>2010-09-14 20:38:39 +0000
commit68c155de3c3e83f53404288a318c5e29f0c4610f (patch)
tree3038e465a5cda497e52e93b4c5532b0dfa7d2c79 /doc/user/bgr_text
parent78c2bcf9e96ab00615ee6f96905bca78fcd52a00 (diff)
downloadlout-68c155de3c3e83f53404288a318c5e29f0c4610f.tar.gz
Lout 3.28.
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/lout/trunk@25 9365b830-b601-4143-9ba8-b4a8e2c3339c
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/bgr_text b/doc/user/bgr_text
index 2c56022..286698a 100644
--- a/doc/user/bgr_text
+++ b/doc/user/bgr_text
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ texture.sym @Index { @Code "@Texture" symbol }
and @Code "@Colour" do. It causes the object to its right to be printed
in a texture specified by the object to its
left:
-@ID @Code "striped @Texture 50p @Font ABC"
+@ID @Code "striped @Texture 40p @Font ABC"
produces
@FootNote {
If you can't see the result here, or if you can see it but without
@@ -16,9 +16,12 @@ texture, then the fault is probably in your PostScript viewer.
The PostScript viewer used by the author (a 1997 version of @I { gv })
shows a blank space here and throughout this section wherever a
texture is supposed to appear, but when printed on his printer
-the textures appear correctly.
+the textures appear correctly. Some viewers may fail altogether when
+given a PostScript file with textures. In that case, run your document
+again using @OneCol @I { lout -t } instead of @I { lout }. This will
+cause Lout to ignore all textures and print everything in solid colour.
}
-@CD striped @Texture 50p @Font ABC
+@CD striped @Texture 40p @Font ABC
The object to the right of @Code "@Texture" may be arbitrary as usual.
@PP
# Textures are harder to specify than colours, and only a few
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ striped @Texture
angle { 45d }
hshift { 1p }
vshift { 3p }
-50p @Font ABC
+40p @Font ABC
}
produces
@CD striped @Texture
@@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ produces
angle { 45d }
hshift { 1p }
vshift { 3p }
-50p @Font ABC
+40p @Font ABC
with the texture scaled by a factor of 2, printed at an angle of 45
degrees, and shifted one point horizontally and three points
vertically. The @Code scale option causes equal scaling in the